Speech #710176523

Mr. President. in response to the Senator from Alabama I might say. in the language of a distinguished journalist of the West. "All of which is partly true". but the fact is that we have been dealing here with a specific immigration problem. riot with the general immigration problem. We are dealing alone. in reality. with the problem of immigration from Mexico. and when it is sought to adopt an entirely different plan from that which exists as the general policy of the Nation today. of necessity it is going to make more difficult the solution of the Mexican problem that is now being handled by the Senator from Georgia . You can take an instance like my own. I want to aid in the passage of some remedial legislation here. I am not entirely clear as to just what form that remedial legislation in respect to immigration from Mexico should take. I am not entirely clear whether it should take the form of the bill that is presented by the Senator from Georgia. whether the substitute that is presented by the Senator from Maine . or whether we should rewrite this bill so that it touches alone the problem of Mexican immigration. Which of these courses should be adopted I am not entirely clear. but I am perfectly clear that if we seek by this measure to tack on another that is a drastic immigration policy. by which the entire policy that the United States now has adopted shall be changed. and changed in a fashion which will be obnoxious. I am sure. to many Members of the Senate and many Members of the House. we shall simply retard the possibility of the remedial legislation that the Senator from Georgia presents.